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**NOVEMBER 13, 2025**

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On Wednesday we learned [link removed] that, according to a 2011 email from Jeffrey Epstein to his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, Donald Trump “spent hours” with one of Epstein’s victims, in Epstein’s house. We are all quite familiar with what that has meant in other contexts. Why are we only hearing about it now?

**–Ryan Cooper, senior editor**

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How on Earth Are We Just Now Hearing About Trump’s “Hours” With an Epstein Victim? [link removed]

Well, now we have it. On Wednesday, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released another batch of documents [link removed] related to notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Among them were several emails about Donald Trump. One was from Epstein to his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell back in 2011. He wrote:

i want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump.. [victim] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc. im 75 % there[.]

(Excuse the spelling and grammar errors, that’s all Jeffrey.)

By now, we’re all familiar with what “spent hours” meant in the context of rich, powerful men and Epstein’s victims—particularly given the reference to ‘barking,’ which has to mean going to prosecutors or the media.

Epstein also wrote to the author Michael Wolff in 2019: “[victim] mara lago … trump said he asked me to resign, never a member ever. of course he knew about the girls as he asked ghislaine to stop[.]” This appears to be a reference to Maxwell picking up victims [link removed] at Mar-a-Lago—raising the question of whether Trump was mad at Epstein’s abuses, or for “taking our people [link removed],” as he said in July.

This certainly puts some more intrigue on the seating yesterday of Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ), the 218th vote on the discharge petition in the House to release the Epstein files, as well as the Trump administration’s increasingly desperate campaign [link removed] to stop that vote.

But I have just one question: Why are we only hearing about these emails now? They came from Epstein’s personal email account. Are we really to think that the Biden-era Justice Department could not find or get access to this, when the Trump-era DOJ clearly did? It was a regular Gmail account, for crying out loud, and Epstein, being dead, could not fight them in court. The Epstein estate happily honored the request this year for the birthday book. Google would have tripped over themselves obeying a legitimate order, which could have been obtained easily, to turn over the records of the most notorious pedophile in the world.

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